Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

“Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ ‘due process.’” 

– Buck Sexton

Impeachment would be too mild for the claque of Woke-activist federal judges attempting to nullify the executive branch with hectoring writs against any and all sorts of executive actions. If simply bounced off their benches, they could just take up new careers as NPR legal commentators or transsexual pole-dancers. Rather, what you’ve got here is an obvious seditious conspiracy, plain for all to see, orchestrated by the same legal Nosferatus as RussiaGate, the 2020 election, and the J-6 witch hunt.

The catch is, this time it is discoverable and subject to prosecution because the party running this legal insurrection no longer has its hands on the levers of power in the DOJ and the FBI as it did when they ran the aforementioned ops. And so, the mighty silence emanating from those two agencies just now should tell you something: namely, that cases are being carefully constructed to finally bring these despicable caitiffs to real and chastening law.

If you want to know one paramount reason for institutional failure in our country, look to the evil enterprise that calls itself “Lawfare.” It originated as a blog launched on September 1, 2010, founded by three key figures: Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, and Robert Chesney. Over time it evolved into an activist operation, The Lawfare Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to (cough cough) “Hard National Security Choices,” and run under the shady umbrella of the Brookings Institution.

The point of Lawfare is self-evident in its name: it is an instrument of warfare against a perceived enemy which, for the past decade, has been the political faction led by Mr. Trump, the once-and-current chief executive of the federal government. Mr. Trump is a danger to the bureaucratic arm of the federal government because he has defined it as a racketeering operation and moved decisively to end its depredations.

Lawfare is the praetorian guard of the permanent DC bureaucracy, including especially its rogue intel actors, who function as enforcers for the Democratic party that largely staffs the bureaucracy.

Norm Eisen, a Brookings senior fellow, is the chief operational strategist for the Lawfare enterprise. He has been active in all its ops, capers, and mind-fucks since Mr. Trump came on the scene in 2015 vowing to “drain the swamp” (i.e., end the racketeering). Norm Eisen holds leadership roles in two subsidiary Lawfare orgs: States United Democracy Center and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Eisen’s broader connection stems from his history of orchestrating legal challenges against Mr. Trump — advising the Mueller investigation, drafting impeachment articles, and leading CREW’s 200-plus lawsuits in Mr. Trump’s first term.

Now, following the Biden interregnum, Norm Eisen leverages a network of nonprofits (ACLU, Public Citizen, etc.) and left-leaning judges to file hundreds of new lawsuits to thwart the MAGA clean-up effort under Elon Musk’s DOGE. Tax filings show that CREW’s funding, in part, comes from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Item: during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, CREW received $432,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from Newtek Small Business, which evolved into a financial holding company after acquiring National Bank of New York City in January 2023, rebranded as Newtek Bank.

The money-laundering through multitudinous foundations, NGOs, and “non-profits” is the essence of the Democratic Party’s racketeering mode in league with federal bureaucracies such as USAID that dispensed billions of dollars to a vast network of activist recipients. Translation: it provides salaries (often six-figures) to party foot-soldiers whose only duties are to move the money through the organizational layers and to be available for such party tasks as ballot harvesting, vote-counting, and organizing riots.

This is the mischief that Mr. Trump seeks to put an end to, and so he must be thwarted at all costs by those whose lifeblood depends on the ongoing rackets. The so-called “Resistance” alliance between the Democratic Party and the bureaucracy seeks to prevent reform by any means necessary. Since they no longer control potent executive agencies such as the DOJ and the FBI for intimidating and punishing their enemies, their only recourse is the federal judiciary and its officers of the courts, that is, lawyers and judges practicing Lawfare.

The federal judges are political appointees, such as John J. McConnell from the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, who was a personal injury lawyer (i.e., “ambulance chaser”) and major Democratic Party donor, giving nearly $700,000 to party causes, and serving as Rhode Island Democratic State Committee treasurer. Judge McConnell issued a wide-ranging restraining order against the DOGE-advised freeze of federal funding launched in February of this year. McConnell’s daughter, Catherine, is a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022. See how that works?

Similarly, James Boasberg, a RussiaGate cast member, and as a presiding judge in the DC federal court in sixty J-6 cases. Independent journalist Laura Loomer alleges that Judge Boasberg’s daughter, Katherine, works for Partners for Justice (PFJ), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is dedicated to defending “criminal illegal aliens and gang members,” including opposing their deportation, and that it receives significant funding from U.S. government grants, such as those from USAID. Judge Boasberg notoriously issued a restraining order last week against the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members labeled by the DOJ as a terrorist organization. See how that works?

Now, the difference between Lawfare and the practice of law is that Lawfare trafficks lavishly in lies to do its business in the courts and actual law practice is supposed to be dedicated to ascertaining the truth in matters that come before the courts. Lawfare is grounded in dishonesty — as is its main client, the Democratic Party. That is exactly why Judge James Boasberg went along with FBI Director James Comey’s false warrant applications in the FISA court that enabled the RussiaGate operation to do its dirty business. Thus, the grand orchestrator of the Lawfare enterprise as a whole, Norm Eisen, is a sort of Father-of-Lies.

Remember beyond all this sturm and drang stands an essential principle: the truth is sturdy and untruth is fragile. 

Like you, I am standing by to see what eventually comes out of the Trump DOJ in the way of cases that might definitively settle this mighty battle between Lawfare and the law.

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Hollywood “actor and activist” John Cusack has added his support to the organised attacks on Tesla facilities and vehicles, declaring that Elon Musk is a fascist who is “literally killing people.”

Cusack, who used to be likeable in the 1990s after movies such as ‘Say Anything’ and ‘Better Off Dead’, has now nailed his radical leftist colours to the mast after joining a recent online “Mass Mobilizing” ‘TeslaTakedown’ Call during which various extremists plotted a coordinated anti-Tesla action for March 29th.

Cusack claimed that Musk is a “pathological liar,” a “criminal,” a “sociopath,” and a “ghoul” who is “literally killing people.”

The actor also claimed that Elon likes to repeatedly flash Hitler salutes in public.

“These are unprecedented times of mass criminality,” declared Cusack.

He continued, “I mean those terms very precisely because who else would use his own child as a sympathy prop while literally taking starving aid from people all over the world,”

“People are going to die because of this madness. He’s a man who threw 80,000 people out of the VA indiscriminately,” Cusack further blathered.

Actor & Blue Anon spox @johncusack says @elonmusk twice made a “Sieg Heil Nazi salute” & is literally killing people by helping cut govt spending.

He says by accessing Treasury Dept. “metadata,” Musk knows everything people like Cusack are searching for on the internet.

“Musk… pic.twitter.com/pPKh1uEIkP

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 20, 2025

Cusack also called for people to get involved with Bernie Sanders and AOC’s “fight the Oligarchy” tour.

As we earlier highlighted, far left Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett was also part of the ‘TeslaTakedown’ discussion, expressing a desire to see Elon Musk “taken down.”

While the FBI investigates far-left terrorist attacks against Tesla service centers, showrooms, Supercharging networks, and vehicles, the radical Soros-funded non-profit Indivisible is preparing to launch the multi-city offensive against the American company in the coming days.

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In the Thursday evening and overnight hours Russia continued to pound Ukraine’s key Black Sea port city of Odesa, which was widely described as one of the biggest single drone attacks visited on the city since the war’s start.

At least three locals were injured in the attack, and large fires resulted, importantly just as Czech President Petr Pavel was in Odesa on Thursday, after which he traveled back to Kiev.

Odesa’s regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram, “Significantly, it was during our meeting that the enemy once again massively attacked the Odesa region” – in reference to meeting with President Pavel.

“The long-range drones buzzed into the city in several waves, damaging infrastructure, residential houses and commercial buildings, and causing multiple fires, the interior ministry said,” as cited in Reuters. “Around 25 cars had been set ablaze at a car repair shop.”

The Czech president is in Ukraine where he’s presenting a deal to provide over one million artillery shells for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.

Reuters has quoted one Ukrainian source who called the attack the “most massive” assault on Odesa since Russia invaded in February 2022: “It was intimidation. Terror against the civilian population.” And Oleksii Kuleba, Deputy Prime Minister for Ukraine’s Reconstruction wrote the following on Telegram:

“I am pleased to welcome Czech President Petr Pavel to Ukraine. We met in the city of Odesa, which is terrorised by Russia every night. It was during our meeting that the Russian Federation launched three groups of Shahed drones on the city. The entire civilized world must witness Russia’s crimes against Ukraine.”

While the key southern port city has come under occasional major missile attack since the war’s start, it has thus far been sparred of full-scale military invasion. But there might be preparations as the city has now been hit several times this week alone.

One year ago (in March of 2024), Elon Musk predicted that Odessa would become the next big city Russian forces would eye after solidification of their hold over the Donbass region.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO explained at the time that Ukraine’s position continued to weaken even as its leadership refused negotiations while pressing the West for more weapons. “Whether Ukraine loses all access to the Black Sea or not is, in my view, the real remaining question,” he stressed in his commentary posted on X.

“The longer the war goes on, the more territory Russia will gain until they hit the Dnepr, which is tough to overcome. However, if the war lasts long enough, Odessa will fall too,” Musk wrote at the time.

And that’s when he concluded, “Whether Ukraine loses all access to the Black Sea or not is, in my view, the real remaining question. I recommend a negotiated settlement before that happens.”

The White House now says it is busy working on that, with the next meeting between American and Russian negotiators set for Monday in Saudi Arabia.

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Union contracts are at the heart of the problem. Chicago coming up.

Full Blown Crisis

Please note L.A. city budget shortfall grows to nearly $1 billion, with layoffs ‘nearly inevitable’

L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs “nearly inevitable.”

City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo said Mayor Karen Bass’ proposed budget, which will be released April 21, will close that gap, but it will require difficult “cost-cutting decisions.” He warned that the severity of revenue declines and rising costs has created a budget gap that makes layoffs “nearly inevitable.”

Szabo, in his presentation to the council Wednesday, attributed the city’s financial woes, in part, to increased spending on legal payouts, which have ballooned over the last few years. Tax revenues have been coming in much weaker than expected — and are expected to soften further in the upcoming budget year, which starts July 1.

Pay raises for city employees that are scheduled to go into effect in the coming budget year are expected to consume an additional $250 million. On top of that, Szabo said, the city needs to put hundreds of millions into its reserve fund, which has been drained in recent months in an attempt to balance this year’s budget.

Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky, who heads the budget committee, said the council will need to look at the possibility of asking unions representing city workers to defer the scheduled raises or make other concessions.

“I think everything needs to be on the table,” she said in an interview.

David Green, president and executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 721, called Szabo’s remarks “short-sighted and irresponsible.”

“There’s no question that all of us are in shock with this number,” said Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who sits on the council’s budget committee.

Blumenfield predicted that city leaders would need to seek financial concessions from the workforce.

“Eighty percent of our expenses is labor,” he said. “If we are short more than 10% of our budget, the ‘math doesn’t math’ without looking at labor costs.”

Over the last two years, Bass and the council have signed off on raises and increased benefits for an array of unions — first police officers, then civilian city workers, then firefighters.

Anyone Who Is Shocked Is Incompetent

What’s happening now has been obvious for years.

Corrupt mayors get into bed with corrupt unions leaders then use budget gimmicks to hide the results.

The city exhausted its reserve fund to make the budget look balanced.

Then the city got a reprieve as did all the corrupt blue cities by Biden giveaways, especially the third round of fiscal stimulus that temporally papered over fiscal issues while stimulating the most inflation since the 1970s.

In response to the inflation, unions demanded bigger and bigger pay hikes on top of preposterous benefits.

The Big S Has Finally Hit the Fan

And I am pleased to report Trump will not bail out these irresponsible cities.

As long as Republicans hold the Senate, the same applies regardless of who in in the White House.

Chicago On Deck

March 13, 2024: Chicago Teachers’ Union Seeks $50 Billion Despite $700 Million City Deficit

If you live in Illinois, get the hell out before unions take every penny you have.

July 2, 2024: In Chicago There’s Under a 50 Percent Chance Police Show Up If You are Shot

Good luck in Chicago getting the police to show up if you are shot, stabbed, a victim of domestic violence, or any number of other serious crimes.

August 30, 2024: The Pending Implosion of Chicago Public Unions, No City is More Deserving

Chicago has a budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Tack on another $2.9 billion for a proposed teachers’ contract plus an unknown amount for firefighters.

December 23, 2024: The Corruption and Incompetence of Chicago’s Mayor Has No Bounds

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson stepped to new lows when his hand-picked board fired Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Pedro Martinez without cause.

It’s time for a Chicago update on union contracts and pension funding.

I am openly rooting for a big-city economic collapse because it’s the only chance at reform with these clearly corrupt mayors.

But If Trump really wants to fix this, he needs to lobby Congress to end collective bargaining for public unions.

Unfortunately, the facts show Trump also panders to unions, especially the police and dockworkers.

Addendum

Please note “L.A. spent $160 million last year to collect $100 million in parking tickets. If that isn’t the best metaphor for this town I don’t know what is. Do something everyone hates and do it poorly.”

H/T @adamcarolla

By Mike Schuler of gCaptain

Major maritime industry stakeholders are voicing strong opposition to the U.S. Trade Representative’s proposed Section 301 actions targeting Chinese-built and operated vessels, warning of potentially catastrophic effects on U.S. trade and consumer prices.

The USTR’s proposed measures aim to counter China’s growing dominance in maritime sectors by imposing port entrance fees of up to $1.5 million on Chinese-built ships and operators, while promoting U.S. vessel usage. A public hearing is scheduled for March 24, 2025, at the International Trade Commission.

A public comment period is also currently open, giving industry stakeholders a chance to voice their opinion on the proposed measures.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing over 80% of the global merchant fleet, warns that the proposed fees could severely disrupt U.S. trade and increase consumer prices. Current data shows China builds 61% of the world’s new merchant vessels, with the proposed fees potentially affecting 98% of container ships calling at U.S. ports.

“The proposed remedies could have an overall net negative impact on the U.S. economy, and result in a decline in U.S. exports,” states ICS in their submission.

Atlantic Container Line (ACL), a specialized carrier, projects dramatic cost increases: export container rates could surge from $500 to $2,500, while import rates could jump from $2,500 to $4,500. ACL warns they would be forced to “terminate its US service, close its American offices, lay off its American staff and redeploy its ships to non-US trades.”

The Chamber of Shipping of America (CSA) emphasizes that U.S. shipbuilding capabilities are currently insufficient, citing decades of industry decline. This limitation is further highlighted by ICS data showing U.S.-built ships cost four times more than foreign-built vessels, with delivery times exceeding 10 years for specialized vessels.

“Due to decades of neglect, the US maritime industry has seen a steady decline…we necessarily must rely on vessels registered in other nations,” CSA states in its submission. CSA further states imposing port fees alone won’t revitalize U.S. shipbuilding or the U.S.-flagged fleet, rather, proactive legislation like the SHIPS for America Act is required.

SeaPort Manatee in Tampa Bay, Florida stresses that the fees would severely harm American businesses, particularly those providing critical short-sea services between the U.S. and neighboring countries. It provided a striking example of potential consequences, noting that one operator, World Direct Shipping, could face fees up to $104 million annually. This could force cargo diversion to trucks, resulting in “1,000 more trucks crossing the border each week, increasing congestion at Texas border crossings and wear/tear on U.S. highways.”

The East Coast Stevedore Company warns that implementing the fees as written would “destroy trade across the entire United States.” This sentiment is echoed across the industry, with particular concerns about impacts on agricultural exports, energy trade, and regional shipping services.

BIMCO, another major industry voice, warns that the fees would severely increase shipping costs, reduce U.S. trade competitiveness, harm American consumers, and disrupt global maritime supply chains without addressing China’s underlying policies. Also, regional short-sea shipping costs could increase by 100-500%, potentially cutting off critical supplies for manufacturing, mining, and construction.

BIMCO argues such measures won’t incentivize a shift away from Chinese shipyards but will instead raise costs and create market distortions. It recommends considering alternative policies to directly enhance U.S. shipbuilding, avoiding unintended consequences that threaten the competitiveness and stability of global maritime trade.

As the March 24 hearing approaches, stakeholders emphasize the need for carefully considered alternatives that can strengthen U.S. maritime competitiveness without causing widespread economic disruption.

Amid a rising, international wave of deranged leftists damaging and destroying Tesla vehicles and charging stations as a crude means of lashing out at Trump advisor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, people accused of anti-Tesla violence in three different states have been hit with federal charges. 

“The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.” If found guilty, they face charges that have minimum penalties of 5 years in prison, with maximum 20-year sentences.  

The Department of Justice has not yet named the alleged villains, but, in a Thursday press release, the DOJ described the criminal acts they’re accused of perpetrating in Oregon, Colorado and South Carolina: 

• One defendant…armed with a suppressed AR-15 rifle, was arrested after throwing approximately eight Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership located in Salem, Oregon.
• Another was arrested in Loveland, Colorado after attempting to light Teslas on fire with Molotov cocktails. The defendant was later found in possession of materials used to produce additional incendiary weapons.
• In Charleston, South Carolina, a third defendant wrote profane messages against President Trump around Tesla charging stations before lighting the charging stations on fire with Molotov cocktails.

While the charges represent a welcome development, there are many more criminals still at large, such as a black-clad arsonist who spray-painted RESIST on the doors of a Las Vegas Tesla Collision Center in the early hours of Tuesday morning before setting two cars ablaze and shooting three more with a firearm. 

DEVELOPING: Video provided to the Review-Journal shows several @Tesla vehicles engulfed in flames after Las Vegas police say they were set on fire by an individual early Tuesday morning.
UPDATES→ https://t.co/sZQr9j1E5A pic.twitter.com/uXeLsdpTVl

— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) March 18, 2025

Hatred of Trump and Musk crosses international borders; so too has anti-Tesla violence. In one of the largest attacks yet, upwards of 80 vehicles at an Ontario Tesla service center suffered damage that included deep scratches and punctured tires. On Thursday, Musk said security at Tesla outlets has been bolstered, in part by activating “Sentry Mode” on all Teslas that are parked at them. Sentry Mode uses the vehicle’s external cameras to detect suspicious activity and record video of what’s happening. 

Tesla has ramped up security and activated Sentry Mode on all vehicles at stores https://t.co/3HwUgE8ZoF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2025

Sentry Mode has already helped many Tesla vehicle-owners capture vandals in the act. San Jose police arrested this man who was recorded keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot last week. “Our residents can’t be held accountable for something Elon Musk is doing 3,000 miles away,” said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. 

The man caught on video keying a #Tesla in San Jose has been identified and arrested for felony vandalism according to #SanJose Police. Chief Paul Joseph says “no matter one’s personal beliefs or frustrations, they do not justify illegal actions…” @SanJosePD pic.twitter.com/BhGa83I8Jn

— Dan Thorn (@DanThorn_) March 18, 2025

This man was reportedly arrested on a Class 6 criminal mischief felony charge after keying a Tesla at a Crunch Fitness in Fort Collins, Colorado:

This guy keyed a Tesla at a gym in Colorado and just got arrested and charged with a felony.

Imagine ruining your life because a bunch of anons on social media told you Elon Musk was a Nazi.pic.twitter.com/LK7ifCW7PQ

— George (@BehizyTweets) March 19, 2025

Here’s another sociopath using a less destructive yet repulsive form of attack; there’s no indication he’s faced consequences yet: 

EXCLUSIVE — Another radical leftist was caught on Tesla Sentry Mode, this time throwing his dogs feces at a parked Cybertruck in St. Petersburg, FL.

The owner needs help locating this suspect to pursue criminal and legal action— if anyone has any information, please DM us. pic.twitter.com/EIWllpb9vm

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) March 19, 2025

The wave of violence has Tesla dealerships and individual vehicle owners on edge, with law enforcement eager to put the hammer down on the perpetrators. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is among officials around the country pushing for arrests. “If you are a law enforcement officer in Florida and you interfere with somebody and prevent them from hurting a Tesla — come find me and I’m gonna try to get you a pay raise and a promotion,” he told Fox News on Thursday morning. 

As the sick, leftist spectacle unfolds, things are likely to get worse before they get better. As we detailed on Thursday, a George Soros-funded non-profit is getting ready to fan the flames. Here’s how Robby Starbuck broke it down on X: 

Over the next few days you’re going to see an organized progressional protest effort at Tesla stores put together by a group called Indivisible. They’re calling these ‘Tesla takedown’ events and they’re doing it in the midst of a domestic terror spree targeting Tesla and Tesla owners. They have these planned across the entire country…The Indivisible founders are Ezra Levin and his wife Leah Greenberg. They became ‘resistance’ figures during Trump’s first term…There’s reportedly even a form protest leaders can fill out to receive “reimbursement” payments for their protests. 

While Bondi and others have reasonably characterized the violence as “domestic terrorism,” there’s no indication that terrorism charges have been filed agains the three people described in Thursday’s DOJ announcement. That’s because, believe it or not, there’s no stand-alone federal domestic terrorism law; however, more than 30 states have laws addressing domestic terror. 

People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders. WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!

Donald Trump Truth Social Post 3/20/25 11:08 PM

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) March 21, 2025

While there’s some debate over whether that label applies to the anti-Tesla violence, Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, has no doubt: “It’s absolutely domestic terrorism,” he told NPR. “I know that may discomfort many people. But vandalism is a crime that if it’s committed with a political motive, can certainly be defined as terrorism.”

Whatever the specific charges, here’s hoping for a deluge of state, local and federal indictments pouring down from sea to shining sea. 

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering invoking its state secrets privilege in its showdown with a federal judge over the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act and deportation of illegal immigrants, a high-ranking DOJ official said in a new court filing submitted Friday.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former criminal defense lawyer for President Donald Trump, confirmed a statement issued by Robert Cerna, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, in court papers filed earlier this week in the case that Cabinet secretaries under Trump “are currently actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets privilege.”

“I attest to the accuracy of those statements based on personal knowledge of the events described by Mr. Cerna,” Blanche wrote, “including my direct involvement in ongoing Cabinet-level discussion regarding invocation of the state-secrets privilege.”

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg told government officials that they have a Friday deadline to submit a sworn declaration by a person “with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions” about the state secrets privilege and to tell the court by next Tuesday whether the government will invoke it.

Invoking the state secrets privilege—an evidentiary rule used under U.S. legal precedent—means that government lawyers can assert that court proceedings may divulge sensitive state information that may endanger national security.

Boasberg this week ordered the government to explain why it did not turn around flights carrying deportees to El Salvador and to argue whether the move violated his court order blocking the Alien Enemies Act deportations of those individuals last week.

Boasberg had directed the government to return flights with Venezuelan illegal immigrants alleged to be members of the Tren de Aragua back to the United States.

The judge, who is based in Washington, had given the government until noon Thursday to either provide more details about the flights or make a claim that it must be withheld because it would harm “state secrets.” The government resisted the judge’s request, calling it an “unnecessary judicial fishing” expedition.

In a written order, Boasberg called government officials’ latest response “woefully insufficient” and said that the Trump administration “again evaded its obligations” by merely repeating “the same general information about the flights.”

The judge ordered the government to “show cause” as to why it didn’t abide by his court order to turn around the planes, increasing the prospect that he may consider holding government officials in contempt of court.

The order issued by Boasberg has drawn sharp condemnation from Trump and some Republicans, who have said the judge should be impeached. At least one Republican lawmaker introduced articles of impeachment targeting the judge, although it’s unclear whether GOP House leaders will pursue their usage.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told news outlets that they may pursue an alternative legislative remedy other than impeachment but will hold hearings on Boasberg and other judges in the coming days.

Calls for impeachment, meanwhile, sparked a response from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who released a statement suggesting that it’s unprecedented to impeach a judge for issuing an order that the government disagrees with.

“Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in his statement.

While no other Supreme Court justices have publicly commented on the matter, retired Justice Stephen Breyer told CNN this week that he agrees with Roberts’s assertion and said that instead, the government should appeal the matter rather than focus on impeachment.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said in court papers and in media appearances that she believes Boasberg is exceeding his authority by issuing a nationwide injunction blocking deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that typically is invoked in times of war.

While issuing the proclamation on the Act, Trump said that his administration believes that the United States is being invaded by Tren de Aragua, a transnational gang that was declared a foreign terrorist organization last month.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

JPMorgan analyst Emma Wu told clients that the current level of retail enthusiasm for Tesla is unlike anything seen in the last ten years. This surge in retail buying comes as the stock remains halved from its December high of around $479. Weighing on shares are concerns over a potential slowdown in electric vehicle deliveries during the first quarter, along with mounting backlash from radical leftist nonprofits seeking to destroy the company and investors. 

The global equity derivatives strategist told clients that retail net buying flows into Tesla topped $8 billion over the last 13 consecutive sessions through Thursday. This was the longest buying streaks for Tesla via JPM data dating back to 2015. 

Data from Bloomberg shows Tesla shares are halved from mid-December’s peak of $479.

“Tesla made some rookie to mid-stage public market investors extremely wealthy, a lot of people became millionaires because of this stock,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder at DataTrek Research, quoted by Bloomberg.

Colas said, “People don’t forget that. And they will come back to a stock again and again if they feel it has been beaten up,” adding, “These kind of investors don’t care about valuations at all. They just believe in the future of the company and Elon Musk’s abilities.”

In recent weeks, Goldman Sachs analysts Mark Delaney, Will Bryant, and others provided clients with a downward revision in their 1Q25 vehicle delivery estimate from 399k to 375k, citing weaker demand. 

“Weak Demand”: Goldman Lowers Tesla Vehicle Delivery Estimate For Quarter https://t.co/l4K15HjHTC

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 5, 2025

On Thursday, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas lowered his price target for Tesla and slashed sales forecasts, citing the risk of a potential buyers’ strike.

Tesla investors are facing not only souring fundamentals but also a network of anti-capitalist NGOs …

This was my favorite speaker, the independent journalist and hacker who tells us the entire point of these organized protests are to tank Tesla stock.

Not a lawyer but this seems illegal to me. pic.twitter.com/9V2aNrdDR2

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) March 20, 2025

… planning color revolution-style campaigns against the most American-made car company—aimed at destroying the brand and driving shareholder value to zero.

Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times,

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has directed the Bureau of Land Management to “pursue steps to expand opportunities for exploration and development” of oil, gas, and mineral resources across nearly 20 million previously off-limits acres within Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

The move was not unexpected after President Donald Trump issued a Jan. 20 ‘Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential’ executive actions package mandating federal agencies “expedite permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects,” prioritize “development of Alaska’s liquified natural gas (LNG) potential,” and expand fossil fuel development in the 23-million-acre NPR and 19.6-million acre ANWR.

Burgum followed through with a Feb. 3 order requiring the Bureau of Land Management to “exercise all lawful authority” in developing a plan to implement the president’s policy.

“It’s time for the U.S. to embrace Alaska’s abundant and largely untapped resources as a pathway to prosperity for the nation, including Alaskans,” Burgum said in a March 20 press release announcing the directive.

The sweeping actions by Trump and Burgum, who also chairs the National Energy Dominance Council, rescind “all regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions … promulgated, issued, or adopted between Jan. 20, 2021, and Jan. 20, 2025,” essentially erasing dozens of actions related to Alaska by President Joe Biden and his administration.

During Trump’s first term, Congress directed the Department of Interior (DOI) to open a 1.56-million acre coastal plain area within ANWR’s Section 1002 to oil and gas drilling for the first time when it adopted the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the area could hold up to 11.8 billion barrels of oil.

However, the Biden administration auctioned only 400,000 acres in January 2025, drawing no bidders because “new severe restrictions” imposed in November 2024 made “any development economically and practically impossible,” Alaska argued in a Jan. 5 lawsuit that alleged DOI and the Bureau of Land Management were in violation of the TCJA.

Under the executive actions and Burgum’s directive, the bureau must now make the entire 1.56-million-acre ANWR coastal plain and 82 percent of NPR available for oil and gas leasing. More than 13 million of NPR’s 23 million acres had been off-limits to development for decades since at least 1980.

“For far too long, the federal government has created too many barriers to capitalizing on the state’s energy potential,” Burgum said.

Trump campaigned on a vow to “unleash American energy” to ignite economic development and pay down the national debt, something Burgum expounded upon during a March 12 discussion before global energy leaders at CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston.

“Our national assets far exceed the $36.5 trillion in debt,” he said, noting assets administered by DOI—500 million acres of public land, 700 million acres of subsurface mineral rights, 2.5 billion offshore acres—are long-mismanaged resources the Trump administration sees as debt-busting revenue generators.

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) said in a March 20 statement that Oil and gas leases and the revenues they generate may not be the answer the president and his interior secretary are touting them to be.

The January 2021 ANWR lease sale authorized by the TCJA “yielded only $16.5 million in revenue, largely funded by the state-backed Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority,” the nonprofit said, citing its recently posted analysis of ANWR lease sales as a case-in-point.

Subsequent withdrawals and cancellations of leases “ultimately led to taxpayers receiving no new revenue from the sale” the Washington-based watchdog said.

The second lease sale, the January 2025 auction that spanned 400,000 acres, attracted no industry bids at all.

“ANWR lease sales were originally projected to generate $1 billion in federal revenue to offset the TCJA tax cuts, which Congress now seeks to make permanent,” the nonprofit said.

“Our examination, grounded in lease sale data spanning the past two decades, provides a rigorous, data-driven estimate of likely federal revenues,” it said, that “directly challenge overly optimistic revenue projections that have been used to justify recent fiscal policies, particularly using ANWR lease sales as revenue-raising offsets for the proposed $4.5 trillion in lost revenue as part of the budget reconciliation package.”

Burgum’s directive also calls for the land management bureau to “convey” federal lands framing Dalton Highway north of the Yukon River to the state, essentially tracing the proposed route of the 211-mile Ambler Road project proposed by the Alaska Industrial and Development Export Authority, and along the 807-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline Corridor.

The pipeline project, sponsored by the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, seeks to funnel about 3.3 billion cubic feet of gas a day (Bcf/d) from Prudhoe Bay above the North Slope to Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula, about 80 miles south of Anchorage. It would be the only LNG export terminal on the west coast of the United States.

The proposed pipeline/terminal project was initially submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2017 and received authorization to proceed in May 2020 under the Trump administration. It was reauthorized under the Biden administration in 2022.

Despite the re-authorization, nearly 80 Biden executive orders related to Alaska energy development had locked the LNG project in a regulatory limbo.

“It’s a very different world, right?” Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said during a March 14 CERAWeek address, noting Trump’s Alaska executive actions don’t just untangle oil, gas, and the state’s LNG project from regulatory straitjackets, but clear away federal rules restricting access to critical minerals, timber, and other resources in the massive state.

“It’s an amazing executive order,” he said. “I mean, we’ll have that framed on our walls for decades” in the Alaska governor’s office in Juneau.

The governor has been on a sales trip to Japan, South Korea, and Thailand securing customers for when the state’s LNG pipeline/liquefaction plant begins producing in less than three years.

Dunleavy called Burgum’s directive “more great news for Alaska,” in a March 20 statement.

“The news today will provide more investment opportunities, more jobs, and a better future for Alaskans,” he said. “We look forward to our continued work with President Trump and his administration to move Alaska and our country forward.”

Update (1205ET) 

London’s Heathrow Airport announced that some flights will resume later today, following a complete shutdown since Thursday night after a nearby power substation caught fire and backup generators failed to kick on.

👀 Flights in and out of London-Heathrow last week and today at 13:00 UTC. pic.twitter.com/CKo3SqAQfP

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 21, 2025

“We’re now safely able to restart flights, prioritising repatriation and relocation of aircraft. Please do not travel to the airport unless your airline has advised you to do so,” the world’s fifth-busiest airport wrote on X. 

Our teams have worked tirelessly since the incident to ensure a speedy recovery. We’re now safely able to restart flights, prioritising repatriation and relocation of aircraft. Please do not travel to the airport unless your airline has advised you to do so. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/fhUGiXCh6B

— Heathrow Airport (@HeathrowAirport) March 21, 2025

The airport said, “We hope to run a full operation tomorrow and will provide further information shortly. Our priority remains the safety of our passengers and those working at the airport.” 

We hope to run a full operation tomorrow and will provide further information shortly. Our priority remains the safety of our passengers and those working at the airport. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this incident. (2/2)

— Heathrow Airport (@HeathrowAirport) March 21, 2025

“You would think they would have significant backup power,” one top executive from a European airline told Reuters.

Maybe this…

The sheer lunacy of Heathrow airport swapping reliable diesel generators with a net zero biomass system. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ksuikAVwhN

— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) March 21, 2025

Heathrow’s closure caused over 1,300 flight cancelations and sparked widespread delays at other airports.

One airline insider told Reuters that the last time European airports faced this much disruption was during the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption, which produced an ash cloud that grounded 100,000 flights.

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Britain’s busiest airport, Heathrow, suffered a massive power outage after a fire broke out at a nearby electrical substation in West London. Backup generators failed to kick on, forcing the airport to shut down and resulting in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights. The disruption sent shockwaves through global air travel. While the cause of the incident remains under investigation, UK officials have stated there is “no suggestion of foul play.”

Friday morning in London with Heathrow Airport closed. pic.twitter.com/jufFvNKr42

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 21, 2025

UK Energy Minister Ed Miliband confirmed that a preliminary investigation into the electrical substation fire in West London has found “no suggestion” that it was caused by foul play.

Heathrow Airport closure due to an explosion at a fire at a power station nearby last night.

Had to deploy the drone rq and capture this#hayes #fire #london #heathrow pic.twitter.com/GAsOGP1uj0

— ‘ (@zain_018) March 21, 2025

“At the moment, the focus is on restoring power. We don’t yet have a full understanding of what caused the grid failure or the fire,” Miliband told LBC Radio, adding, “There’s no suggestion of foul play—just a catastrophic accident, as far as we can tell.”

This is the sub station fire that has caused blackouts and the 24 hr closure of Heathrow airport.

200,000 passenger will be affected… carnage. pic.twitter.com/eu00kCliVl

— Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 (@EssexPR) March 21, 2025

Heathrow, which serves nearly 90 airlines—including Britain’s national carrier, British Airways—has canceled about 1,300 flights, affecting over 145,000 passengers.

London-Heathrow will be closed for ALL of Friday due to a “significant power outage” caused by a fire in an electrical substation.

There are currently 120 aircraft in the air that will be diverting to alternate airports or returning to their origins. https://t.co/TEHf2kJO23 pic.twitter.com/Lot0lsJLz8

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 21, 2025

Heathrow Airport was handling 83.9 million passengers last year. That gives about 220k passengers per day. pic.twitter.com/kymm3VpH6N

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 21, 2025

Inbound flights to Heathrow were diverted to several airports, including ones nearby, such as Gatwick, London’s second-largest airport, and Manchester. According to Flightradar24 data, some flights were rerouted to international airports in Madrid, Paris, and Ireland.

“The diverted flights were already in the air, so that’s a diminishing number,” Heathrow Airport spokesperson Michael Murphy-Pyle told CNN.

In markets, shares of European airlines fell. IAG—the parent company of British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia, and others—declined around 2.5%. Air France-KLM shares were also down about 2%.

LoL!

I’m looking forward to Russia being blamed for the Heathrow fire 🔥. What are you waiting for, Starmer?

— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) March 21, 2025

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